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https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/everything-announced-for-magic-the-gathering-in-2026

  • Lorwyn Eclipsed
  • To Be Announced Universes Beyond Set
  • Secrets of Strixhaven
  • Marvel Super Heroes
  • The Hobbit
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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago (2 children)

same feeling as looking at this

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

if i didn't know this image pre-dated generative AI i would have thought it was AI generated.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

Fr fuck this brain rot distraction

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

Ah so magic is dead and it's just crossovers now

[–] erik@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ready Player One was a curse, not a novel.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Fortnight and its consequences.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

4/6 are Fortnite nonsense. Thanks again to the WOTC lack of quality control for curing my cardboard addiction.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Totally. I haven't bought cards in a couple years now because of the pace of release combined with this nonsense.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget the powercreep. The game is a shambling zombie at this point.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not sure how the Magic stack works, does that ability go into effect before damage is dealt?

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Yes. Combat is broken down into sub-stages:

  1. start combat
  2. declare attackers
  3. declare blockers
  4. damage

The ability triggers during the declare attackers step and must resolve before blockers are declared.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Yeah, the reason for that effect beside being able to fit the number is so that you can safely attack it, making it somewhat less broken than it appears.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It really is. The power creep is crazy. There's no balance anymore.

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

corpo voice but it is balanced, if you buy the newest set in sufficient quantity you get the win cards everyone can do so equally.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

For a small time I considered just buying the high quality fakes in order to keep playing, but eventually it became obvious just how bad the pace of new releases was gonna get. The funniest shit was people wringing their hands about using fake cards in competition.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Seems like it's suffered the same fate YGO did.

[–] mattgolsen@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Hello fellow kids, I stopped at The Dark what did I miss? 😂

[–] CupcakeOfSpice@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I recently got into the Gundam Card Game. Don't know how long I'll keep with it, but I'm enjoying it so far.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Jeez even the Un sets have gone Universes Beyond. I wonder what weird game breaking mechanics Unannounced is gonna have.

spoilersoviet-playful

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it would be kind of entertaining to have a Un-iverses Beyond set if they pick a good property for it. Magic is dead, so this metaverse slop might as well be as entertaining as it can be, right?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Get weird with it. Do a Nestle UB set, straight to standard and premodern, 120 cards, 90 of them "food" type. 3 card boosters, only rares, mythics, and ultra-mythics. Serialized versions of all cereals.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

dead-dove-1 I wonder what kind of cool magic setting we'll explore this time! Haven't looked at new sets in years. dead-dove-2 dead-dove-3

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I dont play or know anything about Magic but if I did it an absolutely sure this would piss me off.

Collectible card gsme people should get into card based board games. I guarantee Talisman or Cosmic Encounter would scratch the same itch but also it teaches you how to count cards. I just want Cosmic Encounter to become popular cause its the game of games

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Dominion is fun doggirl-thumbsup

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[–] VapeNoir@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can i just get a Magic-flavored Magic?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

i might've looked at Lorwyn 2 if not for that other shit and The Office and Furby and Iron Maiden and...

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Every capitalist card game will eventually go this route if they don't go under first. The incentives are just too strong, the best you can hope for is that it holds out for a long enough time to have fun.

I wonder if it would be possible to do a CCG and have it be successful while being print-your-own. Maybe have it be a collaborative project where people submit art and cards to be considered for the next set, which releases every one or two months. The central group (and contributors) could even still make money by selling the cards - just instead of banking on artificial scarcity for profit they'd be running a print shop.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

What's a weird addendum to this is that the Professor in the video I linked down-thread was saying that they can't even keep up with print demand for their own core products! They're diluting their brand and flooding the market even when their base game would keep them profitable indefinitely.

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[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

visible-disgust

Surprised Disney would let them use the Marvel Super Heroes, didn't they recently release their own TCG, which would presumably feature all of the properties they own.

I guess MtG is doing much worse than they would like to admit, I don't know anyone who still plays it anymore, that includes people who have been playing since the 90s. All this stuff does is cheapen it and might give a short term boost to sales but won't help them out long term. Why play a card game that no longer has a disctinct vibe but is now just "Funko Pops: The Card Game"

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Worked for Fortnite! sus

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[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't kept up with Magic for a couple of years now, is it really just a bunch of crossovers now? Does this really sell that much? I think crossover sets are cool from time to time, but every time I hear about Magic nowadays is something negative because of the crossover sets.

[–] Blep@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Final fantasy did gangbusters. Spiderman is looking like itll flop, but its also just a poorly designed set to play. I only started a few months ago so idk how baldurs gate or lotr did

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't even know there was Baldur's Gate set lmao. I haven't really bought cards in years and haven't played in months. WOTC also left my country, so it's probably really expensive to play Magic now.

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

WOTC also left my country

How does a nation achieve this?

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

I thought this was an edit or spoof of Marvel's line ups, I can't believe this is real.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the fortnitification of everything ever

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Viva califortnitification

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If anyone is interested in a channel where an angry and bitter MTG enthusiast complains endlessly and in great detail about WOTC and things like this screenshot, check out https://www.youtube.com/@RedBobcatGames/videos

I don't really agree with him on everything but I think he's interesting and knowledgeable and is able to be very severely critical despite evidently also being treat-brained.

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] heatenconsumerist@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

TF is all of this shit lol

[–] cbd@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah fuck this I'm playing Netrunner lol

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Tolarian Community College had a good video on this last month, he was making the case that WotC can still put out great sets like Edge of Eternities that just came out or last year's Dragons of Tarkir, but they get shoved out of the limelight by all these crossover sets. And that the Universe Beyond sets also being at a premium price point as well as Standard format legal both push up the price of playing Standard and incentivize Wizards to eventually jack up the price of regular sets while they're at it.

Magic: The Gathering Is Out Of Control

[–] somename@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Edge of Eternities is the sort of IP bending “non-traditional” magic I’d be fine seeing. That was a set you could feel the designer’s creativity and exploration, and the art was fantastic.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah I haven't actually played around with it other than see a couple cards trickle into my preferred format, but I hear the Limited environment is a lot of fun, and from what I've seen and heard it still feels very much in the spirit of M:tG while being in spaaaAAAAaaace.

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago
[–] Poof@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

When do we get MTG Yu-Gi-Oh set?

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